Ozone-generator.



PATENTED- MAY 5, 1903.

G. L. CURTIS. OZONE GENERATOR. APPLIOATION FILED JAN. 17. 1903.

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N0 MODEL INVENTOR PATE-NTED MAY 5, 1903.

G. L. CURTIS. OZONE GENERATOR.

APPLICATION FILED JAN. 17, 1903.

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Pater GEORGE LENOX CURTIS, OF NE\V YORK, N. Y., ASSIGNOR TO EDWARD" GOODW'IN, OF \VORCESTER, MASSACHUSETTS.

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SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 727,101, dated May 5, 1903.

Application filed January 17, 1903. Serial No. 139,409. (No model.)

To (all zvhmn it 71mg concern:

lle it known that I, GEORGE Lauox CURTIS, a citizen of the United States, residing at New York, in the county of New York and State of New Yorlghave invented certain new and useful Improvements in Ozone- Generating Apparatus; and I do declare the following to he a full, clear, and exact description of the invention, such as will enable others skilled in [O the art to which it appertains to make and use the same, reference being had to the accompanying drawings,and to the letters of reference marked thereon, which form a part of this specification.

This invention relates to new and useful improvementsin ozone-generating apparatus; and my aim is to produce a novel device simple in constructionv and portable and designedfor use for therapeutic and various other purposes and adapted to transmit the ozone generated either by direct contact of the apparatus with a person or through the medium of the atmosphere intervening between the apparatus and the user.

More specifically,the present invention consists in the provision of an open-ended cylindcr of glass or other suitable material, which may or may not be provided with a metallic lining provided for the purpose of distributing the electrical energy over a considerable surface of the cylinder, and in the provision of an exhausted tube which is supported Within the cylinder by suitable insulating means and one end of which tube is provided with a cap to which a high-tension electric currentis adapted to be connected the inner surface of the exhausted tube being provided with a metallic lining electrically connected with the cap to which the current is applied.

0 Another feature of the invention consists of the provision, in connection with the cylindrical shell and the exhausted tube, of an exhausted Geissler tube which is connected by a suitable means to said cylindrical shell and having,preferably, a metallic wire extending from the interior of the shell into the Geissler tube, thereby providing means whereby the ozone which is generated as it passes through the apparatus may be conveyed by induction from the shell to the handle and given o'if -either'by a direct contactwith the handle or at .the open ends of the shell, thus affording convenient means for allowing the ozone to be. breathed by bringing the flaring end of the shell adjacent to the head a patient or by direct contact with the handle i n which a deepviolet light is produced when the apparatus is connected up with a high-tension coil.

The invention consists, further, in various details ofconstruction and combinations and fined in the appended claims.

My invention is .illustratedin the accoun 6o adaptations ofparts, which will be herein after fully described and then specifically'del,

Figure l is a side elevation of myimproved ozone-generating apparatus. Fig. 2 is a cen.--

tral sectional view through the cylinder, the exhausted tube. mounted therein, and the Geissler tube connected with the cylinder.

Fig. 3 isa sectional view through the exhausted tube adapted to be held within the shell..-

Fig. 4 is a perspective view showing a plurality of tubes mounted within the cylindrical shell,some of said tubes being shown as closed and designed to be exhausted tubes,while 0th-,

ers are designed to be. open at one end.

Reference now being bad to the details of the drawings by letter, A designates an openended cylindrical shell of the ozone-generator and may be made either of glass or othersuitable material. ,One end-of said shell, as-A', is slightly flaring, adapting the same robe held adjacent to the breathing apparatus of a person, wherel v theozone maybe taken through the lungs for the purpose of having a beneficial influence upon-the blood-as it circulates through the lungs. Said shel l,,is preferably provided with a metallic lining B upon its inner circumference, or, ifi desired,- said liningmay be dispensed with. llhis link.

ing covers considerable of the inner circum fei-ence of theshell, and portions of said .lin;

ing extend into the lateral1y projectin,.i tubular extension B'of'the shell. in the cylindrical shell is preferably an exhausted tube 0, havingintegral spurs 0 projecting radially from the circumference thereof at locations adjacent to the ends of the tube, and l) designates rubber shoes, which Mounted-with;

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are fitted over said lugs and are adapted to be held yieldingly against the inner circumferenceof thecylindricalshell at locations preferably beyond the e'ndsof the metallic lining to theshell. Saidinsulating-shoesD'bearagainst theinnercircumference of the shell with snlficient pressure to support the tube-centrally I within the shell, the friction between said shoes and the circumference of the shell being suchas to allow the tube to be easily removed from the shell when desired. A por- -tion of the inner circumference of said tube ally disposed within the tube .nection with a high-tension current, is attube 0. 1'5

l extends centrally through the tached. Said capiis fitted over an insulatingplug L, seated in the contracted end of the Fitted over the tubularextension B of the shell is a thimble N, made, preferably, of

metal, theinner circumference of which is threaded, as at N, and adapted to receive a threaded thiinble M, which is fitted over a filling O, which extends into the contracted end of the exhausted tube 62', forming the handle of Qthe apparatus, which may be a Geissler or any other suitable tube. A wire R passes through an open-ended tubing R,one endfof which is seated in said filling O in the contracted portion of the tube Q and its other end'passing through the filling, and a plug J tubular projection B, with its inner end withinthe cylindrical shell.,

Referring to Fig. 4 of the drawings, 1 have shown instead of a single exhausted tube within the cylindrical. shell a plurality of tubes,,whigh are supported in insulating members T within the shell, and'a portion of said tubes (designated by letters W) are shown as closed or exhausted tubes, while tubes W are shown with open ends. The opposite ends of said tubes are provided with caps P,which I are connected, by means of the wires P,with the cap Y'H, whereby a high-tension current maybe connected to the various tubes.-

vThe manner ofgenerating ozone by the apparatus comprising my invention consists in introducing electricity of high tension from any suitable source of supplyto the metallic cap at the end of the inner tube or tubes.

The electricity being conducted through the will be liberated from the'oxygen in the air,

central wire in the inner tube to the coating about the circumference of the latter will' cause the outer shell and the handle to become charged by inductiomand the ozone due to the disruption of .the air caused by electrical discharging, and deep-violet light waves will be generated in the shell. The

electrical charge induced on the extremity R on the handle 0 induces through the rarefied space a charge of opposite polarity, which in turn induces acharge of opposite polarityou the opposite end of the tube. There is thus induced upon the surface of the handof the person holding the handle a charge of high potential, which chargeis conducted through the hand and body of the person to the earth. By holding the apparatus adjacent to a per-: sons nose the odor of the ozone may be readily detected, and treatment may be had by direct contact with the handle of the genertor. Owing to the utilization of a high-tension curreut,it has been demonstrated that the same deep-violetlight may be induced within an exhausted tube when held some distance from the apparatus, thus proving that the effect of the ozone may be experienced without direct contact With the apparatus, the surrounding atmosphere serving as a medium [or conducting the same from the device to the body of a person, it being understood that my apparatus is unipolar, the body of a person and the medium of the atmosphere serving as the opposite pole.

While I have shown in the present inventiona metallic lining for the inner tube and shell and the inner tube preferably exhausted or closed, it will be understood that the lining, if desired, may be dispensed with, and I may make other alterations inthe detailed construction ofthe apparatus without departing from the spirit of the invention.

Having thus fully described my invention, what I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, isv 1. An ozone-generatorcom prising an open- -ended shell, an exhausted tube mounted within and insulated from said shell, a metallic cap on one end of said tube, e v otrical connection with said cap, and a h y le fastened to said shell, as set forth.

2. An ozone-generator comprising an openended shell, an exhausted tube mounted within and insulated from said shell, electrical connection with one end of the tube, and an exhausted tubular handle to the shell, as set forth.

3. An ozone-generator comprising an openended shell, an exhausted tube mounted Within and insulated from said shell, a lining over a portion of the circumference of said tube, a cap over one end of the tube, electrical connections between the same and said lining,

and an exhausted tubular handle fastened to said shell, as set forth. I 4:. Arr oxonc genorator comprising an openendod shell, an exhausted tube mounted within and insulated from said shell, a metallic lining over a portion of the surface of said exllausted tube, a metallic cross-piecemounted within said tube, a cap over one end of the ube adapted for connection witl'ra high teusioufcnrrent, metallic connections between said cap and lining, and an exhausted tubular handle connected tosaid s,hell,as'set forth; 5. An ozone-generatingapparatus c0mpris-.

ence thereof, an exhausted tube mounted in and insulated from said shell, a lining to the exhausted tube, acap over the contractedend of the tube, metallic connections between said cap and the lining of the exhausted tube, and an exhausted tubular handle connected to the shell, as set forth.

6. .An ozone-generating apparatus comprising an open-ended shell, an exhausted tube having integral lugs projecting therefrom, insulating-shoes mounted over said lugs and adapted to frictionally engage the inner circumferenceof the shell and support said tube,

a cap over one end of the exhausted tube adapted for connection with a high-tension current, and an exhausted tubular handle to the shell, as set forth.

7. An ozone-generating apparatus comprising an open-ended shell, a metallic lining over a portion of its surface, an exhausted tubular handle to said shell, an exhausted tube-within the shell, flexible insulating-shoes carried by said tube and adapted to frictionally engage the inner circumference of the shell, a metallic cap over the contracted end of the tube,- a metallic lining to the exhausted tube, and metallic connections between said cap and lining to the tube, as set forth.

8. An ozone-generating apparatus comprising an open-ended shell, an exhausted tube mounted within the same and insulated therefrom, a cap over one end of said tube adapted for connection with a high-tension current, a tubular extension on said shell, and an exhausted tub fltted thereto, as set forth.

9. An ozone-generatin g apparatus comprising an open-ended shell, a tube with contracted end mounted within the same and insulated therefrom a lining to said tube, a cap ,over the contracted end of the tube and adapted for connection with a high-tension current, a thimble fitted over a tubular projection on the shell, and an exhausted tube fitted to said thimble, as set forth.

10. An ozonegenerating apparatus comprising an open-ended shell, an exhausted tube removably mounted within said shell and insulated therefrom, a metallic lining to said tube, a cap over one end thereof, and -1netallic connections between the same and said lining, a thimble fitted over a tubular extension of the shell, an exhausted tube, a filling at one end thereof, and a threaded thimble fitted to said tubular extension, as set forth.

In testimony whereof I hereunto a'lfix my signature in the presence of two Witnesses.

GEORGE LENOX CURTIS.

Witnesses:

OORNELIA O. CHATFIELD, Jim. B. RICH. 

